22 U.S.C. § 5508

Assessment of Lockerbie experience

Edition 2026

(a) Assessment
The Secretary of State shall compile an assessment of the Department of State response to the Pan American Airways Flight 103 aviation disaster over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988.
(b) Guidelines
The Secretary of State shall establish, based on the assessment compiled under subsection (a) and other relevant factors, guidelines for future Department of State responses to comparable disasters and shall distribute such guidelines to all United States diplomatic and consular posts abroad.

Amendment history

(Pub. L. 101–604, title II, § 209, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3085.)

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